Gallup Black-on-White

United States/Southwest/Phoenix Basin

c. 980 A.D.- 1150 A.D.

Pueblo I Period, Pueblo II Period

Earlier/Alternative Names

Puerco Gallup Black-on-white, Puerco Chaco Black-on-white, Puerco Chaco-Gallup Black-on-white, Chaco Black-on-white, and Chaco/Gallup Black-on-white.

Morphological Attributes

Bowls, pitchers, jars, and dippers.

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Technological Attributes

White to light grey sherd and sand

Hatching commonly consists of thin evenly spaced lines that usually exhibit angular hatching across one framing line to the next. Designs may consist of broad hatched triangles or pendants that cover most of the vessel. These pendants are spaced so that they create negative space similar in thickness across the vessel. Other hachured elements may include even spaced or hachured triangles. Pendants or banded designs are often organize in rectilinear straight or scrolled shaped ribbons. For pottery produced in some areas, the hachures are wider spaced in earlier forms with later forms exhibiting similar distance between lines as the thickness of lines. The framing lines are usually the same width as hachured lines although they may be slightly wider in some cases. Hatched lines may sometimes become progressively more closely spaced though time and oblique in relation to framing lines. Sometimes hatched bands from square areas filled with solid lines that do not interact as is the case for Reserve Black-on-white. Line width varies from about 2 mm to 4 mm but tend to be uniform with a given design. Design fields also become more filled through time resulting in similar negative and hatched designs. Surfaces are variable, but slightly polished surfaces with a thin streaky white slip are common. Vessel forms include bowls and a range of jar forms including pitchers (Wilson, Southwest Ceramic Typology Project, 2014).

In a neutral to reducing atmosphere